Improvement in apparatus for vaporizing hydrocarbons



JOSEPH KAY CALDWELL. lmp-rovement in vaporizing Hydro-Carbons. N0.118,903, 7 Patented Sep. 12,1871.

TATES PATENT MQrrrcn.

JOSEPH KAY CALDWELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 118,903, datedSeptember 12, 1871.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, J osnrn KAY CALDWELL, of the city and county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Vaporizin g Hydrocarbons; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a clear and exact description of the nature thereof,sufficient to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to fully understand and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing makin part of this specification, in which thefigure is a side view of an arrangement of pipes that may be employed incarrying out my invention.

This invention consists in an arrangement of two or more pipes,adjust-ably connected together in such a manner that the passage ofsteam, heated or suywrheated, through one pipe produces a vacuum in theother pipe, by means of which oils of any gravity are drawn out, driveninto a mist or spray, and, combining with the steam, formed intohydrocarbon vapor.

Referrin g to the drawing, A may represent the pipe for the passage ofoil, and B the steampipe, both of which, respectively, communicate withsuitable oil-reccivers and steanrgenera-tors. These pipes are arrangedwith their jets or nozzles at or about at right angles to each other,and should be provided with proper valves, cocks, or equivalent meansfor the admission, adjustment, and shutting off of the supply of oil andsteam. G C are arms connected with the pipes, and are so constructed asto permit the pipes to be moved toward or from each other and beretained in position by a set-screw or other device.

The steam may be heated or superheated, and when admitted into itscorresponding pipe its passage therethrough produces a vacuum in theother pipe. The oil is thus drawn out and driven into a mist or spray,combines with the steam, and is converted into hydrocarl)on-vapor. Theentire product of the oil being completely disintegrated by the pressureinstantly and readily combines with the steam, furnished in properquantities, thus forming hydrocarbon vapor, which will burn with anintense heat without smoke, cinders, or residuum of any kind whatsoever,thereby completely utilizing the carbon and other inflammable propertiesof the oil.

This invention also enables me to dispense with generators, which areexpensive and apt to become clogged with the residuum of the oil.

By these means I produce a burning medium which can be introduceddirectly into the firechamber or box and there consumed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The pipes A B, each provided with a nozzle, and connected together so asto be adjusted at any angle, and held in position by a setscrew or itsequivalent, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

The above signed by me this 11th day of August, 1871.

JOSEPH K. GALDIVELL.

THos. CALDWELL. (77.)

